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DARPAN — A moment to reflect on our journey, align as one team, strengthen our partnerships, and present our work with clarity and purpose.
That's what Darpan is about. Not just a gathering, a mirror held up to our collective journey.
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A dream trip to NASA.
A memory for life.
A reminder that opportunity can change everything.

In July 2025, 16,000 students from Pune Zilla Parishad appeared for a screening test for the opportunity to visit ISRO and NASA. Of them, 25 students were selected for a 10-day learning tour to NASA, while 50 others got the opportunity to visit ISRO.

These students had no private tutors. No coaching classes.
What they had was commitment, curiosity, supportive parents, and teachers who showed up every day — using the Vinoba App to track progress, identify learning gaps, and help them grow.

For many of these Nanhe Sitare, this was more than a trip.
It was a moment of belief.

A belief that government school students can dream bigger, aim higher, and go farther when the right support reaches them.

This was not luck.
It was the result of systematic efforts by students, teachers, parents, Pune District Administration, and Vinoba.

Share this story and help more government school students believe in how far they can go.

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Teacher Mr Shyamsingh Nureti teaches at a Govt School, Binta, in Bastar district. His students used to feel hesitant, unseen.

So he did something small but powerful: he recorded their best moments and uploaded the videos to YouTube.

When children saw themselves on screen, their confidence changed overnight.

But the real turning point? The Vinoba app. He found recognition, peer learning, and a community that finally clapped for his work.

He won the Post of the Month award. His CEO noticed. His students thrived.

One teacher. One belief. One platform. This is the Vinoba story.

Share this with a teacher who deserves more recognition.

Thousands of ZP school teachers across Maharashtra are working tirelessly to make public schools a true source of quality education.

Open Links Foundation, through its Vinoba Program, stands firmly with them—supporting and motivating this journey of learning, from classrooms to communities.

Happy Maharashtra Day!

Reading expands your world, fuels creativity, strengthens the mind, and sharpens communication. Mr. Samadhan Shiketod, a teacher at ZP School Raghuchiwadi in Dharashiv district, wanted his students to grow up imbibing all these.

It pained him that his students were not reading books, especially at home. So he decided to take the library to their homes, in a unique way.

He began visiting their homes and helped each family to create a small library. He made parents aware of the importance of reading at a young age, and personally ensured that students had access to the right books.

Increased reading habits among students cultivated deeper focus and patience, resulting into remarkable improvement in academic performance too.

On World Book Day, OLF stands in support of the hundreds of government teachers who are striving to build reading habits among children in their own innovative ways.

जिल्हा परिषद उस्मानाबाद, Samadhan Shiketod